Italy: 16th Cisl Congress under the sign of workers participation

Worker participation. The Cisl advocates a new labor humanism based on “responsible ethics” and “participative union relations” for a “new and balanced relation between capital and labor, calling businesses to practices based on social responsibility.” It wants workers involved in “governance” and the company’s profits and invited the government to introduce it immediately for banks and businesses with public resources, and when national and local public service businesses are privatized.
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ion confederation was held in Rome on may 20-23 with a thousand delegates, representing the 4,507.349 members the Cisl declared for 2008 (219,798 new members, i.e. +5.1% from 2005 to 2008). The Assembly re-elected Raffaele Bonanni as general secretary (99% of the votes, unprecedented in the 59 years of existence of the union). Here are the guidelines of the union’s strategy for the next four years.

Worker participation. The Cisl advocates a new labor humanism based on “responsible ethics” and “p

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